4 The Head and the Hands in Catharine Beecher’s Domesticity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. 1 Uncomfortable Rites in Early Republican Freemasonry 21
5. 2 Conventional Behavior in the American Bible Society 49
6. 3 Involuntary Association in the American Seamen’s Friend Society 74
7. 4 The Head and the Hands in Catharine Beecher’s Domesticity 98
8. Epilogue: Awkward Ritual, Once More with Feeling 121
9. Acknowledgments 125
10. Notes 127
11. Bibliography 163
12. Index 177